Allium unifolium

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One leaf onion

One of California’s easier native onions, this vigorous bulb will spread out and fill an area with it’s offsets and innumerable seedlings. Actually growing several leaves per plant, the blue green growth is contrasted by the vibrant rose-pink clusters of flowers that explode from the tips of their 1′ long stalks.

Adaptable to a number of different soil and water conditions but it thrives in a partial, dry shade border.

The flowers can be used a long lasting cut flowers.

Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade, Shade

Water: Light, Moderate

Soil: Clay, Loam, Sand

Other: Attracts Butterflies, Attracts Bees, Deer Resistant

 

Ecological Value

A source of nectar for migrating butterflies

Container

D-16

Historical Uses

The Mendocino Indians would fry the bulbs and leaf bases as a food.

Distribution

A North American species of wild onion. It is endemic to the coastal mountain ranges of California.

Elevation

Up to 3,600'

Communities
Habitat

Found in the soft chaparral of the Coastal Range.